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Career Success/personal Stress: How to Stay Healthy in a High-stress Environment

Too much work, and too little time to get it done. A boss who wants results, not excuses. Responsibility for the performance of others. Long hours and tight deadlines. Competing pressures at home, and perhaps a family that doesn't always understand. For most people today, stress in the workplace is the rule, not the exception. It is virtually wired-in to the vast majority of business organizations; and, indeed, many of the worst job stressors affecting men and women today have only surfaced in the last three years! Now, finally, here's a stress-management book that takes these new realities into account not only by showing you how to reduce the physical effects of stress, but also how to cope more effectively with stress on the job. It contains a thorough battery of self-tests for evaluating your situation; a rundown of the most common work-place stressors; a comprehensive listing of stress-related systems; and a compendium of 20 useful coping techniques. Sounds too good to be true? You should know that every creative stress-management strategy that's explored in these pages has been medically tested - and proven effective - among a wide range of personality types. Whether you're a stress-vulnerable Type A or a stress-avoiding Type B, you'll learn the secrets of the men and women who do manage to stay calm, healthy, and productive, even in high-stress situations - people the authors identify as Type S personalities. Type S's are well informed about the effects of stress, are moving toward effectively managing stressors, and have built, or are beginning to build, coping techniques into their lifestyles. A gold mine of valuable advice, Career Success/Personal Stress shows you how toidentify your own personality type, perform a personalized stress test, recognize today's 12 major job stressors, and pinpoint which ones are most affecting you; spot and cope with a wide array of stress-related symptoms and illnesses - from backaches, panic attacks, and dermatitis to